On March 12, 1993, the city of Mumbai was thundered with a string of 12 ravaging bomb blasts that had left hundreds of people dead and more than 1400 people injured.
Irshad had multiple cases of theft, murder and robbery registered against him in Thane. He was nabbed after the cops laid a trap, following a tip-off that he was planning to rob in the locality.
Maria, in his book, asserted that Kasab had Hindu ID on him and the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and the terror organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba wanted him to die as "Samir Chaudhary".
Reacting to the stunning revelations made by Rakesh Maria in his latest book, Union Minister Piyush Goyal slammed the Congress party saying a deeper conspiracy was hatched by them to malign Hindus.
Former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria in his tell-all book 'Let Me Say It Now' has revealed that 26/11 Mumbai terror attack terrorist Ajmal Kasab had an ID with Hindu name on it.